Greetings from Frankie2Socks on this over caste 8 day of February 2024.
I have been a bit reluctant to push the 4u2fish campaign very hard, but after lots of thought and a few different conversations with independent thinking people and many folks here in St. Lucia, I have eventually decided to push the 4u2fish campaign into action.
The focus has shifted slightly, and the intentions, aims, objectives and purpose are a bit better defined, so outside folks will feel an awful lot better about many different aspects of the 4u2fish campaign.
The shift away from a totally environmental approach, to a tourism development approach, means that the public perception of the 4u2fish campaign can now be focused on the desired outcome and not the troublesome start position, which is the situation on the ground here in St. Lucia KZN South Africa today, where very few beach access permits are issued through out the year. Only seriously disabled folks get to drive on the beach, after very difficult paperwork application.
The tourism associated with beach access is actually rather significant when one looks into the whole issue, and the community bennifits associated with improved tourism numbers is taken into account and put into the correct perspectives from a financial view point.
This document ( Occasional paper 20 ) issued by KZN TOURISM, hints at the fact that more than twenty thousand (20 000) folks lost their economic opportunities due to the knock on impacts of the 4x4ban and associated legislative actions put in place for environmental management purposes, which deliberately and with malice intent, excludes any economic or social issues, so job opportunities are lost, and our local communities are frustrated.
We do need to find a balance between economic issues, environmental issues, social issues and how these three rather different issues are all intertwined and intermarried in such a fashion that these three separate issues need to be managed as a single entity with three parts that are interlinked and managed co-operatively.
If you are interested in being part of the management team which will push hard for tourism development issues associated with the recreational use of our coastal zones within Umkhanyakude District municipality, then send an email to 4u2fish@info4u.co.za
There is one rather unfortunate problem, which is that every single beach within the Umkhanyakude District municipality is also within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park World heritage site .
So enjoy life, smile and do what is right for your personal well being first, then look after your own local community next. #Frankie2Socks. #4u2fish
